Humanoids aren’t quite ready to replace factory workers, but the industry can’t wait. Faced with labor shortages, manufacturers have shown growing interest in startups that promise faster automation without the usual...
India’s AI model output has been slow compared to the U. S., Europe, and China. Only a few startups are releasing models, and most of them are large language models or voice models. To encourage more development, the...
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google,...
9:23 AM PDT · June 12, 2026 33 min The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you...
In Brief Posted: 10:38 AM PDT · June 12, 2026 Image Credits: Photo by Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto / Getty Images French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise about €3 billion ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg reported...
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider...
Anyone who works at Meta or knows anyone who works at Meta will tell you the same thing: It is not a happy place, particularly given the seemingly endless layoffs the company has executed over the last few years — cuts...
SpaceX has captured the attention of media, investors, and the public for years now — interest propelled by the company’s reusable rocket launches, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and of course, for its...
The U. S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns. Anthropic announced on X...
Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a theory about where the next wave of startup opportunity lies, and it starts with a question most founders aren’t asking: what if the business model was...
24th April 2026 Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models,...
29th April 2026 I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I’ve been working towards for quite a while. Previous versions...
7th May 2026 There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use “all of the capacity of their...
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes 19th May 2026 I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. I...
19th May 2026 Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key...
21st May 2026 We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I’ve been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent represents...
28th May 2026 Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There’s...
6th June 2026 I’ve been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I’ve been looking...
Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 9th June 2026 I didn’t have early access to today’s Claude Fable 5 release, but I’ve spent the past 5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is...
11th June 2026 After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its...